Cathal BarryEverybody’s favourite spy could just have easily been a priest had he not chosen the life of a deadly assassin. In Spectre, the latest instalment of the popular James Bond series, the British spy reveals he had considered a vocation to the priesthood.
At one point in the film, ‘Bond-girl’ Madeleine Swann asks the agent why he chose the life of an assassin.“Well, it was either that or the priesthood,” Bond replies.
The line is sure to further the popular fan theory that 007 is in fact a Catholic.
In Skyfall, the presence of a ‘priest hole’ at Bond’s ancestral Scottish manor led many to believe the agent was a Catholic, descended from a line of recusant Catholics of the Elizabethan era, a time when the practice of Catholicism was outlawed in Britain.